???? Get to know our publishing house: https://radionaukowe.pl/wydawnictwo ???? Convenient book shopping: https://wydawnictwoRN.pl ???? Become a Patron: https://patronite.pl/radionaukowe ???? Support once: https://suppi.pl/radionaukowe ???? Listen on streaming: https://ffm.bio/radionaukowe ???? Subscribe: / @radionaukowe ???? Website: https://radionaukowe.pl ???? Facebook: / radionaukowe ???? Instagram: / radionaukowe ❌ Twitter: / radionaukowe ???? Visit LAMU: / @letniaakademiamlodychumyslow ???? See more: • Radio Naukowe recommends ???? Contact: [email protected] Common associations with the architecture of the PRL period: gray, sad, hopeless. And at the same time cheap, accessible, functional. – We cannot afford the luxury of building apartments like in the Polish People's Republic now – my guest today, Dr. Błażej Ciarkowski, assistant professor at the Department of the History of Architecture at the University of Lodz and author of, among others, the book “Słowo architekta. Opowieści o architekturyurze Polski Ludowej” (The Word of an Architect. Tales of the Architecture of the People's Republic of Poland), which inspired this meeting, quotes one of his heroes. A characteristic feature of the architecture of the Polish People's Republic was the increased, rapid pace of construction. It concerned not only the period immediately after the war. – Drawings from the drawing board went straight to the construction site – says my guest about the construction of the Polish Mother's Health Center in Lodz. The state invested a lot, and at the same time tried to build more for less. This is one of the reasons for the proverbial grayness of housing estates: they saved on colors and decorations (like ceramics on large-panel blocks in Berlin). Architects were a professional group that had relatively large contacts with foreign countries, including the West. They were allowed to import books and magazines from there, and many of them were allowed to leave. Contrary to appearances, the large-panel housing was also born there. "It came to us from the West via the Soviet Union," my guest says. It was a modern, desirable construction technique. In Szczecin, even some buildings built from locally available brick were plastered and had lines scratched in to suggest that the building material was prefabricated panels. New housing estates were designed to be independent urban organisms. Greenery and public utility buildings were remembered: schools, kindergartens, clinics, the number of which was calculated based on the forecasted number of residents. A team of psychologists and sociologists was even hired to build Warsaw's Ursynów. The implementation stage was mixed, to put it mildly. Financial and time shortages often prevailed. You will also hear about utopian projects of tailor-made apartments, projects adapted to specific social groups (for example multi-generational families), about buildings that still hold up today (like Okrąglak in Poznań) and whether the architect had any say on the construction site itself. WE RECOMMEND OTHER MATERIALS: • Radio Naukowe - All episodes • Physics • Biology • Astronomy • Psychology • Animals • Religion • History • History of life • Geography • Technology • Human • Culture • Medicine • Archaeology 00:00 - 2:04 Introduction 2:04 - 6:30 Was the architecture of the Polish People's Republic ugly? 6:30 - 8:55 Demolition brick - a building material in the Polish People's Republic 8:55 - 13:28 What was the architects' approach to architectural design and competitions? 13:28 - 19:09 Reconstruction of Szczecin, Gdańsk and Warsaw and buildings pretending to be large-panel housing 19:09 - 21:45 Why do we associate large-panel housing with communist countries? 21:45 - 27:18 What was the quality of large-panel buildings? 27:18 - 35:20 Architecture and politics in the Polish People's Republic 35:20 - 39:35 Superunit for young married couples, Ursynów without a church 39:35 - 41:38 Author's supervision on the construction site 41:38 - 45:43 Could the architecture of the Polish People's Republic have been better? The most interesting examples of buildings 45:43 - 47:35 To insulate or not? To demolish or not? 47:35 - 52:38 Spatial planning and functionality of buildings in the Polish People's Republic and in modern times ???? Scientific Radio - turn on the knowledge! ???? #RadioNaukowe #KarolinaGłowacka